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Summary
The main physiopathological mechanisms involved in the production of fever as
a benefitial defensive response of the host against different agressions were
analyzed. It is stressed the role of the cytokine-producing cellular stocks with
endogenous pyrogenic activity and the regulating response of the hypothalamus
to the increase of prostaglandins in the control of the functional alteration that
originated it without demaging the organism.
Subject headings: FEVER/physiopathology.
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